We construct an endogenous growth model and we employ empirical analysis to investigate the link between foreign aid and production inefficiency in the presence of different political orientations in the recipient country. Using a panel of 124 countries from 1971 to 2007 and the production frontier toolbox, controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, time horizons, the sources of aid, and the tim...

Abstract. Since 2021, Russia has maintained a list of unfriendly countries. This and the import ban introduced in 2014 are some main economic sanctions uses to influence trading partners. paper attempts quantify effect putting partner on countries compared Russian ban. The study data trade flows between its partners from UN COMTRADE database for select agri-food products. Employing gravity fram...

Achieving the 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Nigeria requires and inclusive economic growth. There is no consensus among economists on effect of monetary policy The results previous studies growth are mixed. main objective this paper to evaluate order ascertain if can be used achieve SDGs Nigeria. from 1991 2020 was evaluated using ordinary least squares regression model. findings...

À partir des données issues du recensement général de la population 2014, nous analysons à l’échelle bassins vie, le lien entre migration résidentielle destination espaces ruraux et périurbains ségrégation socio-spatiale. Nos résultats montrent que les individus sont sensibles aux caractéristiques sociodémographiques voisina...

We consider testing about the slope parameter β when Y −Xβ is assumed to be an exchangeable process conditionally on X. This framework encompasses the semi-parametric linear regression model. We show that the usual Fisher’s procedure have non trivial exact rejection bound under the null hypothesis Rβ = γ. This bound derives from the Markov inequality and a close inspection of multivariate momen...

This paper considers a decision-maker who prefers to make a point decision when the object of interest is interval-identi…ed with regular bounds. When the bounds are just identi…ed along with known interval length, the local asymptotic minimax decision with respect to a symmetric convex loss function takes an obvious form: an e¢ cient lower bound estimator plus the half of the known interval le...

We study the asymptotic distribution of three-step estimators of a …nite dimensional parameter vector where the second step consists of one or more nonparametric regressions on a regressor that is estimated in the …rst step. The …rst step estimator is either parametric or non-parametric. Using Newey’s (1994) path-derivative method we derive the contribution of the …rst step estimator to the in‡...

Moody’s databases of corporate issuers of long term bonds and structured products are used to estimate asset correlations across a group of sectors, world regions and products. The estimation of a dynamic factor model for default risk is performed using Bayesian methods. Results indicate that a two factor model rather than the one factor model, as proposed by the Basel II framework, better repr...

Policy Evaluation and Economic Policy Advice Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific interest typically exert some influence on their treatment stat...